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In March 2023, Microsoft announced Microsoft 365 Copilot. Copilot will leverage the power of large language models alongside your Microsoft Graph data to reinvent productivity.
Copilot will be integrated into the Microsoft 365 apps we use every day (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Viva Engage, etc.). You’ll be able to use natural language commands to prompt Copilot (e.g., draft a 2-page proposal in Word based on the contents of this Excel spreadsheet and PowerPoint presentation). You’ll then be able to work with Copilot to refine the text, change its voice, make it more concise, etc.
Microsoft is testing Copilot in a small private preview with 20 customers today. Microsoft says they’ll be expanding the pilot, with more release details to come in the Microsoft Roadmap. Expect Copilot to be a key part of Microsoft’s announcements at upcoming conferences. It’s going to be a huge year!
How AI (Artificial Intelligence) will continue to change the way we work
Examples of the productivity enhancements Copilot will bring to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
Ways in which we believe Copilot can help us manage our Teams meetings (e.g., summarizing meeting topics discussed, catching users up to speed on topics discussed if they arrive late, etc.)
How Copilot can prompt leaders with suggested verbiage for Viva Engage posts
A quick overview of the newly announced Microsoft Security Copilot
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Microsoft recently announced the ability for people within organizations to share pronouns within their Microsoft 365 profile. This is an exciting change, enabling organizations to create greater opportunities for inclusion.
It’s great to see Microsoft supporting everyone in our community. Pronouns matter. Letting people choose their pronouns and having these pronouns reflected in Microsoft 365 are an important part of respecting everyone’s individuality.
The feature is disabled by default. IT administrators must enable pronouns before users will have the option to provide pronouns in their M365 profile cards. IT administrators should plan for this configuration change to take several hours to fully propagate in their tenant before the pronouns are available for editing.
Employees can choose whether to provide pronouns. Employees aren’t required to add pronouns to their profile cards. Employees that choose to add pronouns will have the pronouns appear on their M365 contact cards.
Microsoft has said more functionality is coming later this year. Stay tuned to the Microsoft 365 roadmap for further news.
Organizations that enable pronouns need to share the news. Consider how you’ll alert your employees that they can now provide their pronouns. Consider using Viva Connections or Viva Engage to spread the news. We provide several ideas during the episode on how to share this news across your organization.
The POWER of Microsoft Lists and Power BI — Daniel Glenn
My second visit with Adam at Guy in a Cube highlights the benefits of using data from a Microsoft List in Power BI. Many organizations have data in their SharePoint and Microsoft Lists. I show how you can visualize that data using Power BI — in more than one way! Microsoft Lists and Power BI: collaboration power!
In this video we talked about how you can use the Power BI integration feature in lists to visualize them. Power BI will use AI to create a report that you can then save right back to the list. Then others that access the list can use the report!
Adam pointed out that the list in my demonstration was using some fancy formatting, so I of course gave a shoutout to my friend and fellow Microsoft MVP Chris Kent.
I then showed a recently announced feature which allows you to bring a Microsoft List in as a dataset in Power BI from the list itself. Amazing!
Check out the video below and let me know your thoughts.
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Today the Microsoft product team announced a much anticipated and predicted change for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva — Yammer is evolving to Viva Engage.
I can’t deny a twinge of sadness that it is time to farewell Yammer as a brand. I’ve been a Yammer user, community manager and advocate since the OG pre-Microsoft days. But for me, this is yet another positive step-change for collaboration, internal communication and community within the Microsoft 365 stack.
Unpacking the announcement
Pretty straight forward really. Key messages from the announcement:
Yammer will brand to Viva Engage
It will happen over a period of 12 months
New features and capabilities are coming
Existing customers continue under existing licencing
For Viva suite and Viva Topics customers there are several new features which will enhance existing networks and perhaps be the hero feature for a new network:
Storyline Announcements for leaders
Leadership Corner for employees
Ask Me Anything Events
#Campaigns
Advanced Analytics
Answers in Viva
Practical considerations
I enjoy a shiny new features as much as the next digital workplace nerd, but what does this mean in real terms. What advice would I give to practitioners deciding how to approach this change? The same (or at least similar) advice that I would give about introducing any new product or feature.
Take it back to basics
What problem are you trying to solve?
Who is going to drive an champion the change?
What processes and governance do you need to ensure ongoing success?
Where does Viva Engage sit in your overall digital workplace and employee experience strategy?
How will you prioritise and resources to support the change, and beyond?
Be purpose driven, not product driven.
Simple to write, takes work in practice.
Existing thriving networks: Take the opportunity to embrace new features and give your healthy network a boost with the new brand approach.
Existing unloved networks: Dust off that strategy, talk to your people, if there is a need to connect, communicate and collaborate a rebrand could be a nice catalyst for change
No current network: Step back and look at what your people need and then decide if Viva Engage is the right solution.
Community Management, Governance and Leadership are (still) key
Viva Engage offers more than the Yammer of long ago, but it is still at it’s core a community and collaboration tool. If you build it, they might come, but if you want them to stay there needs to be purpose, nurturing, rules and the strong presence of leadership.
Fortunately recent releases and improvements have made it easier to do a great job of this. If you’re having conversations about Viva Engage in your organisation you definitely want your Change Management team along side you, clear governance, capable Community Managers and strong Leaders who are equipped to leverage the power of Viva Engage.
Yammer is not dead — it’s evolved
I feel pretty confident that I can retire my ‘Yammer is not dead’ slide, and perhaps I don’t need the Yammer Time Gif any more. But Yammer being dead or alive was never the point. The point is that it did, and Viva Engage does, provide an incredibly useful toolset that has a track record of delivering value for organisations who need to connect their people.
Time to retire the ‘Yammer is not dead’ slide.
References and perspectives
I’m keeping an eye out for resources from Microsoft and perspectives from people in the community. Here are a few I’ve already come across in the hours since the announcement.
Microsoft Loop components in Word Online and Microsoft Whiteboard — Modern Work Mentor
Loop components are our places of portable productivity. We create components and add different Loop blocks to suit our collaborative purposes. Then we share them in Teams chats, meetings, and Outlook email. Now we have two more Microsoft apps that support Loop components and expand our options — Word Online and Whiteboard.
Insert a Loop component in Word Online to coordinate the creation of a document. List tasks. Outline a brief for each task, including references and mention the person assigned to the task. Capture ideas and vote on them. Then share the Loop component in an email, Teams chat or meeting, to invite more people to contribute.
Paste a Loop component in Microsoft Whiteboard to widen your collaborative toolset. Use sticky notes and sketches as spatial tools to expand on your ideas listed in the Loop component. When you have finished with the whiteboard session, update the Loop with a summary and prioritise the list of ideas.
These are just a few ways you can use Loop in Word Online and Whiteboard. I’m certain that collaborative teams will come up with more creative ways to suit their needs.
Loop in Word Online
How does it work?
Loop components can be found on the Insert tab of a Word Online document. You can start with a checklist or task list. Then add other Loop blocks as needed.
After selecting a component to start with, the Loop component first checks that it can share the component. A new Loop needs to be able to be shared with “People in your organisation” and “Edit” permissions. This gives the best opportunity for easy collaboration as the Loop and document are shared. IT Administrators need to have set their default sharing link permission to these settings.
Today (Feb 2023), Loop components are only supported in Word documents saved in OneDrive. Though later we expect support for documents stored in SharePoint and Teams.
As you add more blocks and content to your Loop, it will grow to the length of the page. This creates more space to work in the Loop. If the Loop content grows beyond that, a scroll bar will appear to read and navigate the Loop component. The component will not span pages. I think that’s a good thing.
You can insert more than one Loop component in a document. You might want to assign different sections of a document to different groups of people. Inserting another Loop component will support separate ideas, tasks, notes and research. There might be a need for segregating the content and keeping contributions separate from one another. This scenario needs more thinking through, but I’m sure you see the potential.
Permissions and document lifecycle
With the right sharing permissions in place, the Loop component saves the Loop file in the OneDrive of the person who inserted the Loop. That could be the author of the Word doc. Or it could be a team member that the Word doc is shared with. This could get messy with the Loop file and Word doc stored in different places. But good document lifecycle practise should mean that a Word doc doesn’t live in a OneDrive for long. Create the document in OneDrive and share it with a few collaborators. Insert a Loop to coordinate the document creation. Work on the document till it’s ready to share with a team and publish in your org. Then copy the document to your team or communications site and remove the Loop component. You don’t need the Loop in the published doc, or when you share it with a client. Loop has served it’s purpose in the creation and coordination process.
Loop in Microsoft Whiteboard
How does it work?
Whiteboard doesn’t yet have a way to insert a new Loop component. To use Loop in Whiteboard, copy a link to an existing Loop and paste it anywhere on the board. You don’t need to use a text box. The Loop component will appear under your mouse cursor when you paste.
The height of the Loop component is limited so there is less room to work in the Loop. But the corners of the component can be dragged in and out to change the relative size of the content. As more content is added to the Loop, a scrollbar will appear to navigate the length of the Loop.
If you use the Whiteboard pen to annotate over the Loop, remember that the component can scroll or move. Annotations that point to content in the Loop may lose their meaning if the content moves.
Like other objects in a Whiteboard, the Loop component can be shifted around, brought to the front of overlapping objects and sent to the back. You can lock the Loop so it’s position and size don’t change, and still edit the Loop content.
If you are copying a link for a Loop and have the option to choose permissions, make sure they are inclusive of the people with whom you are sharing the Whiteboard.
Loop, Whiteboard and Teams meetings
One benefit of using a Loop component with a Microsoft Whiteboard is it can be used in a Teams meeting. The Whiteboard provides more width to work inside the Loop component, rather than in the meeting chat.
Today, Loops are only available to people within your organisation. When a Loop is shared in a Whiteboard and meeting with guests, they won’t be able to access the Loop. This is expected to change in the future when external sharing of Loops is supported. So avoid using Loop components during meetings with guests. But after the meeting, your team might insert a Loop to summarise the Whiteboard and discuss it internally.
See where Loops are Shared
A new Loop feature was also revealed in Loop components for Whiteboard. A drop down menu beside the Loop logo now shows other locations where the Loop has been shared. Chats and Outlook email are listed in this example. This only shows locations that the user viewing the Loop has access to. Clicking a listed location will navigate to that chat in Teams or email in Outlook.
Why would I use Loop components in Word Online?
A Loop component can be used to manage tasks, capture ideas, vote on decisions, and more — within the document. We can use different applications to do this today, with richer capabilities. But using the Loop component within the document keeps us focused, preventing us from being distracted by other tasks and items in the other tools.
The very same Loop can be used in a Teams meeting, a whiteboard and included in an email to team members.
It can also be shared with people who don’t have access to the document. It can support separating their contributions from the document while embedding them in the document. Team members who have access to the document can copy the contributions out of the Loop and add them to the document. This can be helpful for authoring sensitive documents where the whole document should not be revealed till it’s ready for the right audience.
There are more uses to discover as the features roll out. This is an exciting time to be experimenting with a new way of working.
An introduction to Teams Premium. Microsoft is bundling 400+ advanced features and artificial intelligence capabilities into Teams Premium. Organizations can purchase Teams Premium for specific users that need features like live meeting translations, intelligent recap, personalized timeline markers, etc.
The power of AI. Many of the Microsoft products we use every day have artificial intelligence. My personal favorite is subtitles in Microsoft PowerPoint. Turn on subtitles before you go into presentation mode, and you’ll see a live transcription of your meeting/presentation. You can transcribe from and to a myriad of languages — and it’s all powered by AI.
The importance of adoption. As Stephen shares, many of our organizations have gone through a profound transformation in the last 3.5 years. Our work here isn’t done. We need to ensure our information workers know and understand the Microsoft Teams capabilities they have — and how these features can help drive strong business outcomes. We also have to build awareness of when a Teams message is better suited than an email (particularly for different types of workers who respond differently to emails than IMs and texts).
Making Teams easier to use. Microsoft is continuing to invest in simplifying the Teams meeting experience, from streamlined content sharing to advanced features like PowerPoint Live.
A big thank you to Stephen for joining us. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did!
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